Online Library of Selected Images -- Photo Albums

This album was compiled by LeRoy R. Horstman, whose enlisted
Navy service began in 1918 and was completed when he retired as
a Chief Boatswain's Mate at the beginning of 1950. Its subject
is his service in USS Hannibal
(AG-1) during the early 1920s. The album has 100 pages, of
which only the first 45 are used, and contains 94 photographs,
most of them in 4" x 5" (actually 4.8") format.
All but a few of the images concern USS Hannibal, her crew,
and her activities while she was employed on surveying service
in Cuban waters in about 1922-1923. Two submarine chasers, SC-223 and SC-353, an Aeromarine
40 flying boat (Bureau # A-5066), and the housing barge YC-66 are also seen.
All worked with Hannibal during these survey operations.

The basic album appears to have been a standard commercial
product sold under the trade mark "Royal Albums". It
is personalized by embossing the ship's name in gold on the front
cover. The album's pages measure 11.15 inches by 6.95 inches.
Covers are 11.55 inches by 7.3 inches. All are punched with two
holes on the left margin, and the album is bound with a woven cord
threaded through black steel tubes and tied in a bow on the front
cover side.

The album was originally donated to the Naval Historical
Foundation in 1977 by Chief Boatswain's Mate and Mrs. LeRoy R.
Horstman. It was subsequently transferred to the Naval Historical
Center (since renamed "Naval History and Heritage Command"). As of this writing, 29 of the album's photographs have
been further cataloged with "NH" numbers, and are featured
in other "Online Library" subject presentations. All
of these are also seen here, with links provided to their "NH"
series Picture Data sheets.

Click on the linked page numbers to
see small pictures ("thumbnails") of those pages.

Click
on the thumbnails to access larger images of the pages.

NOTES:

To the best of our knowledge, the pictures referenced here
are all in the Public Domain, and can therefore be freely downloaded
and used for any purpose.

Some images linked from this page may bear obsolete credit lines
citing the organization name: "Naval Historical Center".
Effective 1 December 2008 the name should be cited as: "Naval
History and Heritage Command".